Hazelton's Lou Barletta Dukes It Out With ACLU

Facing a busload of Leftist immigration apologist lawyers, Mayor Lou Barletta only has to continue to bring them to face the truth: the proclamation the town passed is a matter of law, not feelings, not discrimination.



He's a stand-up guy. If his town's protection under the law is, in fact NOT upheld, it will be because of the largest major obstacle in the fight for local justice:
Federal activist judges.

Protecting the Republic from Federal Judges

June 8, 2006
By Tom DeWeese
hat tip/American Policy Center

In California, a majority of voters supported a ballot measure to stop illegal aliens from receiving tax-funded services such as schools, hospital care and social services. A federal judge declared the measure null and void and forced policy over the legal wishes of the electorate.

In Oregon, a majority of voters supported a ballot measure to require the government to compensate landowners when property was taken through environmental regulations. A federal judge declared the measure null and void and forced policy over the legal wishes of the electorate.

In Alabama, Judge Roy Moore was forced to remove the Ten Commandments from the State Supreme Court grounds. A federal judge declared the monument unconstitutional, ignored the 10 Amendment and forced his will over the legal wishes of the electorate.

The Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, forcibly overturned the abortion laws of all 50 states though its Roe V Wade decision. The Supreme Court ignored the 10th Amendment and forced its will over the legal wishes of the electorate.

Unclear environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act (ESA) are being interpreted by federal judges (who are working hand in hand with non-governmental organizations and private foundations) to implement radical policy, resulting in the taking of private property in every state.

The common term today is "activist judges." So great is their power that school boards are literally banning everything from school prayer to wearing a tee shirt with a Christian message, for fear federal courts will take action against school officials. Now, even state and local courts are making identical rulings from fear of being overturned by a higher federal court.

Activist federal judges have declared themselves the power over state legislatures, school boards, and city councils. Prayer in public places, personal privacy and now marriage laws are under siege from federal courts. The courts, in turn, are responding to a battery of lawsuits filed by such predatory activist groups as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - making the ACLU more powerful than locally-elected officials.

As a result, the federal government grows ever more invasive, as the states become ever more subservient. The Republic for which we stand is quickly disappearing. Obviously, that's not what our Founding Fathers had in mind.

To the rescue is Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) as he introduces a new bill called the "We the People Act." As Rep. Paul explained upon the bill's introduction, "Federal judges are undermining republican government by imposing their preferred policies on states and local governments, instead of respecting the policies adopted by those elected by, and thus accountable to, the people."

(read the rest)

District gags 14-year-olds after 'gay' indoctrination

This goes to the heart of what I said in my previous post. Trust your children to the public school system at your (and your children's) peril. I am personally outraged at the despicable behavior of school officials. Please read the article and also Debbie's post at Right Truth on this. And Stop the ACLU. Arrrgh.

District gags 14-year-olds after 'gay' indoctrination 'Confidentiality' promise requires students 'not to tell their parents'

Posted: March 13, 2007

By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Deerfield, Ill., High School, where officials required students to attend a "gay" indoctrination seminar Officials at Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Ill., have ordered their 14-year-old freshman class into a "gay" indoctrination seminar, after having them sign a confidentiality agreement promising not to tell their parents.

"This is unbelievable," said Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues for Concerned Women for America. "It's not enough that students at Deerfield High are being exposed to improper and offensive material relative to unhealthy and high-risk homosexual behavior, but they've essentially been told by teachers to lie to their parents about it."

In what CWA called a "shocking and brazen act of government abuse of parental rights," the school's officials required the 14-year-olds to attend a "Gay Straight Alliance Network" panel discussion led by "gay" and "lesbian" upperclassmen during a "freshman advisory" class which "secretively featured inappropriate discussions of a sexual nature in promotion of high-risk homosexual behaviors."

This whole sorry affair has been infinitely compounded by... U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf. Of course, another judge of the Leftist Persuasion, argued:

Wolf essentially adopted the reasoning in a brief submitted by a number of homosexual-advocacy groups, who said "the rights of religious freedom and parental control over the upbringing of children … would undermine teaching and learning…"

David and Tonia Parker and Joseph and Robin Wirthlin, who have children of school age in Lexington, Mass., brought the lawsuit. They alleged district officials and staff at Estabrook Elementary School violated state law and civil rights by indoctrinating their children about a lifestyle they, as Christians, teach is immoral.

"Wolf's ruling is every parent's nightmare. It goes to extraordinary lengths to legitimize and reinforce the 'right' (and even the duty) of schools to normalize homosexual behavior to even the youngest of children," said a statement from the pro-family group Mass Resistance.

An appeal of that decision is pending.

The judge concluded that even allowing Christians to withdraw their children from classes or portions of classes where their religious beliefs were being violated wasn't a reasonable expectation.

"An exodus from class when issues of homosexuality or same-sex marriage are to be discussed could send the message that gays, lesbians, and the children of same-sex parents are inferior and, therefore, have a damaging effect on those students," he opined. (emphasis mine)

What is truly frightening is the degree of blindness on the part of school officials, government officials, and federal judges. Not only is it ok to teach your kids that it's just dandy to be a queer, but it's ok to to tell the students to lie to their parents about what they are doing. You can believe the NEA is 100% behind this indoctrination of our children. 100%. And the ACLU, of course... goes without saying.

Homeschool your children, or accept the awful consequences. The recently proposed HJR 29 would make it a "right" for children to have a public education. That is, they would be able to take away parent's rights to homeschool their children.

Thankfully, H.J.R. 29 languished in the House Judiciary Committee and died at the end of the 109th Congress without action. However, this proposed amendment, or similar legislation, could be reintroduced at any time.

Home School Legal Defense Association encourages families to be vigilant during the 2007 legislative season. HSLDA is carefully monitoring Congress’ actions to ensure that the God-given right of parents to decide what is best for their child’s education is not undermined by our nation's laws.

For more information, go to www.hslda.org/2006-HJR29.

Hillbilly White Trash: Carnival of Homeschooling

I haven't written much about homeschooling, although I know some readers are doing that for their kids. I haven't written about it, because I don't know a lot about it. But when I see what a singular disaster "public education" has become, I take heart when I read an article by someone who does:

Hillbilly White Trash: Carnival of Homeschooling

Raised in the South, I went to segregated schools. To do otherwise would have been unthinkable in my day. Our teachers were committed people who knew their respective subjects. The PC agenda was yet to be born. So I had a good, down-to-earth education. They didn't grade on the curve. Here's the way the grades broke down, from Junior High through High School: A = 93-100; B= 86-92; C=79-85; D=70-78. Anything under a score of 70 earned you an F. No exceptions.

If you got an ass-whupping from the principal or one of your teachers, and your Daddy found out about it, it meant you got a 2nd ass-whupping - for getting the first whupping. It was tough on the tookus, but on the other hand, we knew where the lines of authority lay. We not often tempted to challenge them. We knew what was expected from us, and what would happen if we fell short. But, aside from that, we had pretty much full reign over our lives - within reason.

By the time I had a child, I was living in Manhattan, and was able to send her to a fancy East-Side private girls' school. Actually, it was her mother who arranged all that. I made a decision to leave all that up to her capable hands. In hind-sight I wished I hadn't done that, and I urge fathers today to take a hand in your child's education. Ask them what they did today, and listen to the answer. You might be surprised.

I hadn't any connection with public schools beyond my High School days. That is, until I semi-retired and decided to substitute teach in the public school system in New Jersey. It was a shock. It was bedlam, in the old sense of the word. Chaos. I remember thinking - Peter Sellers in "Being There". This is insane, it's a public school. Where are the parents? Why aren't they speaking out about this? That was when I discovered the much deeper problems in the homes of these kids.

Some of them are 3rd generation welfare recipients; ie, grandparents never held a job, parents never held a job. Many are being raised by their grandmother, who is sometimes herself an addict. Drugs take their lives away. The fathers split first, followed by the mothers (in a different direction, of course) - so the grandmother is left to do the job. Some do it admirably. Some do it begrudgingly, having held out some hope of a life themselves, but are now tied down by one, two, sometimes three kids. Education? They haven't a clue. Some grandparents have become hostages to the teenagers in their own home. I also remember thinking: the family unit has become unglued.

In a short 45 years time, how low the standards and expectations have sunk. I wondered, why and by whom? Having devoted hours a day, 7 days a week for the past six months, catching up on what I have ignored for many years, I have a few answers to those questions. As to alternatives, home-schooling wasn't even in my vocabulary. So I turn to those who do, and will try to identify those who are strong, have faith in America.

For home-schooling, try this link:

Carnival of Homeschooling

When faced with the evil, narcissistic self-loathing of the Leftists who have not only stymied public education in America today, but have made sure that it is hobbled beyond repair - when faced with entrenched cultural relativists, home-schooling is one of the last rational approaches to educating your child. Better to have no education, than to deliver them into vile clutches of the NEA. Politicians simply allow this to happen; as America becomes adrift, the would-be "saviors", ie, the Elitists of the Left, fan the flame of diversity, knowing that a society which no longer identifies with the self-defining elements will weaken and fall.

Enter the Islamists. So now we have a determined effort from within and without to destroy America and her values. What I see rising to meet the evil is an assortment of conservatives, libertarians, and just plain ornery people like myself, who don't like what they see and are determined to do something about it. I don't fit into any category that I've seen. Maybe that's for the best.

Today I work as a volunteer in a K-12 school for disabled. I love it.

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Mexico's Very Own Guest Worker Program

Feb. 28, 2007, 2:36PM
Mexico's ambitious reforms include guest-worker plan

hat tip: Austin Bay

By JULIE WATSON
Houston Chronicle

TULTITLAN, Mexico — President Felipe Calderon hopes to accomplish the sweeping immigration reform Washington has failed to adopt — not just cracking down on the southern border but also creating a guest-worker program and improving conditions for illegal Central American migrants.Proving that controlled, regulated migration is possible is the immediate political goal of Calderon, who is unveiling the ambitious reforms shortly before President Bush visits Mexico on March 13-14.

Calderon's migration agency announced the first phase Tuesday, pledging improvements to 48 detention centers in response to criticism that illegal Central American migrants are denied the respect Mexico demands for its citizens in the U.S. The Interior Department said it will soon reveal details of its Safe Southern Border Program to move against illegal crossers, violent gangs in the border zone and abuse of migrants by authorities throughout Mexico.

"We have a porous, southern border with little control of who comes in from Central America and other regions," acknowledged Florencio Salazar, the department's deputy secretary of migration affairs.Calderon also will push Mexico's Congress to make being undocumented a civil violation, rather than a crime, Salazar said. By contrast, Republicans in the U.S. Congress have sought to treat undocumented migrants as felons.

The president also has promised a more formal guest-worker program for Central Americans.
"Just as we demand respect for the human rights of our countrymen, we have the ethical and legal responsibility to respect the human rights and the dignity of those who come from Central and South America and who cross our southern border," Calderon has said.

Details have not been released, but experts expect an expansion of Mexico's seasonal farm worker program, which issues at least 40,000 temporary visas a year, mostly to Guatemalans. Most work in coffee plantations in southern Chiapas state, and many often face problems over pay, medical care and housing.

Migration experts say Calderon wants to stop those abuses while also allowing Central Americans to work in the construction and service industries in the south.

Wait now. Let's back up a minute. Guatemala, and presumably Honduras and El Salvador will come to Mexico to do what? Work at jobs MEXICANS won't do? Well, no because they've already left to come to AMERICA. So instead of solving their own problems at home, the Mexicans, the Guatemalans, the Hondurans, the Salvadorians and Nicaraguans, the most corrupt countries in all of the Americas, will all head North, while we Americans subsidize them, and allow them to send money home. It stinks.

But there's more...

Bush supports Mexico's call for a U.S. immigration accord allowing Mexicans to seek temporary U.S. work visas, but Congress has instead voted to harden the border and increase security.
Washington also has urged Mexico to do more to stop Central and South Americans who hop freight trains north and head for the United States.

"urged Mexico to do more"... Uh Huh. And in an act of pure generosity and good neighborliness:

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the Bush administration has offered to advise Mexico on securing its southern border.

WHOA. The US is advising Mexico on securing its southern border? Is Chertoff on drugs? We're advising Mexico on securing its borders? Man, that 's just great 'cause, when it comes to securing it's borders, the U.S. is unparalleled.

I'll bet Mexico is saying, "NO, no man, that's ok, really. We got this".

Mexico said it detained 182,705 illegal migrants last year; the United States caught more than a million people illegally crossing Mexico's northern border. Calderon sees it as a law-and-order problem: Central American gangs operate on both sides of Mexico's border with Guatemala, robbing migrants and running drugs, and migrants also are mistreated by Mexican police and immigration officials.

Last year, 187 migration officials were disciplined, said Cecilia Romero, Mexico's top immigration official. Her department's plan aims "to entirely eliminate this terrible situation" by improving detainees' access to lawyers and human rights defenders and prohibiting undocumented migrants from being held in common jails.

So now, Uncommon Jails in Mexico? How many have ever seen a Mexican jail?

"It's harder to go through Mexico than getting into the U.S.," said Richard Garcia, a Honduran waiting for a northbound train in this industrial hub outside Mexico City. "At least in the U.S. they just pick you up and return you. Here you get robbed, beat up." Garcia, 31, said at least a dozen men from his Atlantic coast village of Triunfo de la Cruz have lost limbs riding trains across Mexico.Riding with him this time was Dilcia Ortiz, a 27-year-old mother of four from Tela, Honduras who was trying to reach her husband in New York City. Eighteen days into the trip, she had paid a $45 bribe to Mexican immigration officials and watched a female traveler slice her foot in half trying to jump on a train.

"I cried so hard," Ortiz said, recalling how the woman screamed in pain. "I thought of my husband when he did this trip, of all my people who have had to do this."

Amazing. It's like a rite of passage...

Wairon Adalis, 18, of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, said his friend turned back after gang members robbed him and fired a bullet that skimmed his head. Adalis said nothing would stop him from meeting his family in Houston — even the chance to work legally in Mexico.

"If Mexico wants us to work here, then they have to pay in dollars," he said.

No more friggin' Maize, bastardas. No more Frijoles. No, NOT Mexican money, idiota!

Garcia said he would consider joining a Mexican guest-worker program, "but I still don't understand why Mexico cares. We're passing through. We don't affect anything. It's obvious they're just trying to please Washington," he said. "They should let us through so we don't have to die falling off a train. We're all Latin Americans, so we should support each other in this."

But Mexico doesn't want them 'passing through' - it wants them to work for $6 a day in Mexico. Beans.

Source Here at Mexico's own southern edge, Guatemalans cross legally and illegally to do jobs that Mexicans departing for the north no longer want. And hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from nearly two dozen other countries, including China, Ecuador, Cuba and Somalia, pass through on their way to the United States. If the major characters in the migration drama unfolding in Chiapas could be captured in a collage, it would include a burly, white-haired farmer named Eusebio Ortega Contreras, who did not hide that most of the workers who picked mangos in his fields for $6 a day were underage, undocumented Guatemalans.Indians from Chiapas used to do these jobs, Mr. Ortega said. But in the past five years, they have been migrating to the United States. And lately, he said, he has begun to worry that he is going to lose the Guatemalans, too.

Believe it.

President Bush visits Mexico in mid-March.

I hope he gets Montezuma's Revenge.

Is The Sky Falling? Or The Ocean Rising?

Well, finally, we have a rational approach to Al Gore's Chicken Little propaganda. Is the Sky Falling? Or will Gore end up, along with a lot of Environmentally Challenged Leftards (ECL), with egg on his face? You be the judge.
hat tip: Little Green Footballs



I vote egg on face.

Let's Go to the Movies!

A little change of pace...

h/t Right Truth

Ok, I read Victor Davis Hanson's review of the movie, "300", and thought, "What?" (actually I thought, WTF?), then I go to RightTruth to see what she's posted, and there it is again, the movie, "300", but this time it is reviewed by Libertas. I'm not even going to quote, but do read Libertas's review. I was chuckling, by the time I finished reading. Oh, man - the PC Police will be up in arms. Oh, the arrogance! Great!
Then I said to meself, Gutfeld must be having a field day, so I popped over to the Daily Gut, and sure enough - yep, there he is, tweaking the pinko wingnut's noses. Atta boy, Greg. The liberals will hate this one.

And John Kass, who happens to be "an American of Greek descent", of the Chicago Tribune understood and liked it, in spite of certain misgivings, because it is an important movie. I can't wait to see it. And I don't go to movies, as a rule.

Like I said, a change of pace. :)

It’s A Battle Of Perceptions

I posted this on The 910 Group Blog, and this message is mainly addressed to those who have a fire in the belly to take on the jihaddis. However, it might interest you to know how the radical wahhabi terrorist message is being propagated. I had been reading that it was the result of radical imams in the mosques, but while it is undoubtedly true that they are on the same page, it is the Internet Jihaddis who are providing the motivation to young Muslims. Muslims who may not even go to the local mosque. You can read more on the Fourth Generation Warfare Doctrine being dissiminated as the "Global Islamic Resistance Call" by Al-Suri here.

I don’t own a television set, so I can’t know how widely this information has been viewed, which was aired (I guess) on CBS . In any case, it seems prudent to post this video:

People on the video of interest to our fight against jihadis are: A. Aaron Weissburd, a programmer who quit his job to take on the “Internet Jihadis”. Rita Katz of SITE Institute , working with US officials, has also joined the fight from some undisclosed location in the US. General Custer is heading up a military effort to intercept sites such as jihad.com.

All this information is on the video. Just giving you a preview. If you would like to contact A. Aaron Weisburd, here’s his homepage at Internet Haganah: “Confronting the Global Jihad Online”. He apparently has been very successful at tripping them up. Anyone with more information on any of the above, please post in a comment.

We need to find a way to cross swords with these jihadis. If the 910 Group is going to become viable, we need to act now. While we are figuring out how to tie our shoes, these guys are winning the race. So far. As General Custer, and many others have said: It’s a battle of perceptions. The internet is where it’s being waged; they put together very convincing sound and video bytes, and quickly disseminate it around the world, instantaneously.

Confronting the Global Jihad Online:

On Weisburd’s page is the “Top ten” list of Salafyist/Jihadist forums.

The Internet Haganah is a project of: SoFIR: an international non-governmental ad hoc intelligence network focused on combating the global jihad.

And just to keep our very own Ammadabajaba of Iran where we can see him in all his Messianic Glory:

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence’ Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC) posted this.

A lot of skill and intuition, perception of their weakness is needed. The first lesson I was given when I learned to type (on an old Underwood manual-weighed a ton), went like this:

“Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country”. That was then, now we have, thank God, women to fight along side of us.

Come on, guys. Let’s get these cowboy jihadis.

Woman Honor Thyself

The Problem Lies in Islamism -- Not Us

The Problem Lies in Islamism -- Not Us

Human Events.com
by Rabbi Aryeh Spero
Posted: 02/23/2007

Many in the West are shocked and horrified by the aggressive and wild outbursts coming from members of the Islamic communities on the streets of Europe and elsewhere. They see beheadings, shootings in Holland, rampaging young men burning down French streets, trains blown up in Spain and England, and Islamic women holding up signs in European public squares announcing the imminent takeover of Western cities and countries under the banner of Islamic supremacy and jihad. Churches in Asia are being burned and nuns shot dead in the street.

One American campus has already witnessed Christian students run down by an angry Islamic student while at other American campuses "Death to the Jews" is chanted by Arabs as the Israeli flag is burned. And, of course, there was the shooting of an innocent woman by a Moslem in Seattle because she was working at a Hebrew institution. Westerners are not accustomed to seeing such barbarism on their streets and in venerated places.

After all, we are civilized. We vent our grievances in ways far less fatal. Because many in the West know they can not reason with those behind these outbursts, they are blaming not the Islamic perpetrators but those of us in the West for somehow provoking these outbursts. It is easier and safer to lean on us in the West than it is to change the aggressor who will not listen. Blame the victim.

If we simply demur and mollify, appease and “understand,” this whole nightmare will simply go away, they contend, and we can go back to our business of having fun. But such is not reality, rather a collective denial born of fright. We have chosen denial because, for too many, there seems to be no stomach to do, already, what is necessary to stop this barbarism. We can, if we want. But, instead, our timid elites find excuses and justifications for the militant activity.

They opine: It is not Islam but we who are at fault.

Excuses: If only the Pope would stop talking theology. If only film makers would stop making films about humanitarian concerns. If only political cartoonists would stop drawing satirical cartoons. If only newspapers would stop printing editorials. If only speakers would stop speaking. In other words, if only the West would forfeit all of its centuries’ earned rights and bow to Islam’s judgment as to what is allowable speech and activity in our own countries. If only we would, out of “sensitivity,” first consult with the local imam or his Wahhabi superior back home in Arabia.

In other words, if only we would take orders!

read the rest...

Top Ten Reasons Why the US Should Not Marry Mexico

I have been always been an advocate of Vdare. Occasionally, I get out of synch, and have to go back and read their archives. I discovered an article going all the way back to Jan 17, 2007, in which Brenda Walker makes a compelling case against Mexico and Mexicans.

Top Ten Reasons Why the US Should Not Marry Mexico
January 17, 2007
By Brenda Walker

Mexichurian President George W Bush is determined to cement the North American Union as much as possible during his term. Incredibly, he aims at a European Union-type political merger between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, including replacing the dollar with a Euro-style currency called the Amero and rearranging trade patterns to favor Mexico. Central to the deal is the uncontrolled movement of people throughout North America.

This EU mega-state concept has actually been losing support among average folk in Europe. For example, the Dutch and French voted down the EU Constitution in 2005. Doesn’t matter to globalist elites, though. They push forward with expanding bureaucracy slanted toward one-worldish interests in the corporate style.

This is not a joke. The "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" (SPP) is not a nutty conspiracy theory, but is a genuine government policy explained in White House documents and a Commerce Department website. While prettied up in trade language, the intent of the SPP is clearly continent-wide political unification and the dissolution of American national sovereignty. Business elites believe that borders and laws are an annoying impediment to commerce. They have decided the nation-state must go.

With that unhappy possible future in mind, perhaps we should consider the intended spouse in Bush's shotgun marriage. You wouldn't marry your next door neighbor just because of that person's convenient location. Why then are Washington elites working to dissolve sovereignty in order to unify with a third-world sewer best known for corruption, violence, poverty, sexism and apathy toward education?

The only answer is Mexico's enormous supply of cheap, exploitable labor, which business wants to fuel the neo-slave economy of its dreams. But the cultures of the peoples of Mexico and the United States are deeply incompatible, and have a history of bad blood going back centuries.

Below, my list of cultural reasons why the United States should avoid further entanglement with Mexico. Please remember that these are societal averages only; there are many admirable Mexican citizens—particularly those living in Mexico. Also, ten should be understood as an arbitrary number. It does not imply that there are only ten reasons to shun a Mexican merger.

The reasons listed by Walker are primarily because of Mexican character defects of a national and personal nature. She doesn't even go into why having 30-50 million illegal aliens is a nightmare for a US already burdened by internal strife and corrupt politicians. But you know about that. I have personally known quite a few Mexicans who would probably (privately) agree with her assessment of the national character, while mildly objecting to her characterization of their personal character. But these Mexicans I have known are the ones with Platinum Credit Cards. I do know that there tend to be two types of Mexicans: the ones who have money and power, and the ones currently teaming over the border at the sound of "AMNESTY".

So why are corrupt politicians getting away with unleashing this nightmare upon us?

Power
They have it and we don't.
The corrupt politicians on our side of the border and the ones on the other side. It's that "Corporate Mentality" thing .

Money
They have it and we don't.

Are there forces in Congress strong enough to put this amnesty issue out of its misery?

Get Serious.

Our Shrinking Liberties

Our liberties, personal and otherwise are shrinking daily, hourly. Almost anyone in a position of power is working to limit our freedom. And that's not going to change. Politicians are working in concert with the Administrative and Judicial branch, creating laws which have as their goal to restrict our speech, to restrict our freedom to raise our children, to restrict how we think, speak and act. It is the Humanist's dream to deny us the right in short, to act in accord with Judeo-Christian values. And to the extent that many of us were not brought up at least to try to follow the 10 Commandments, they have already largely succeeded.The Cultural Relativists are laying down a totalitarian vise which no one in America, let alone the world can escape. The Cultural Relativist's aim to put our future in the hands of a few elitists is achieved by creating and spreading notions of moral doubt and confusion. Since the sixties, obedience to impulse has been encouraged in order to dilute the concept of right action. Irony of ironies, we have become more 'tolerant' only to end up losing our freedom. The notion of tolerance, as defined by 'do your own thing', Herbert Marcuse (Eros of Civilization) - is that anything coming from the Left is good, anything coming from the Right is bad and not to be tolerated.

In our K-12 school system the 'No Child Left Behind' policy of the Bush Administration has been diabolical and disastrous. They first set up impossible goals to achieve test results, then they never got around to provide funding, while at the same time holding a sword over the heads of school administrators. This leaves them no choice but to try to teach students how to take a test, leaving aside just about everything of importance in a child's education. Hell, even the NEA is opposed to it (!) and considers it an unworkable way to blackmail school administrators.

In our universities there have been unprecedented pressures brought to bear upon college students to kowtow to the Leftist ideology, and to buck the saddle is to risk being labeled 'racist' or 'homophobe', Islamophobe, etc. Students are forced make ideological decisions before all the facts are considered. To be even once so labeled means one can no longer be a member of the cultural elite. There is no option for redemption save abject, debasing apologies to the offended parties. Apologies which almost certainly will not be accepted, because by your act of insensitivity, you will have shown yourself to not be one of them, ergo, a piece of crap. The Left's war on academic freedom is relentless, and the message is clear: (If you are white) NEVER cross the line of offending the Multicultural Victim's Feelings. It is simply inexcusable. To show them the error of their ways, anyone who dares cross that line in the name of freedom of speech, there is a 'sensitivity' re-education class. It's not optional.

The Nanny State, engorging its bloated self on the fruits of labor (by unfair taxation) of the People, daily grows bigger, more powerful, less prone to self-correct. We are rendered powerless by a taxation system administered by a corrupt system of government, and yet many believe it to be just. It is not just. America's citizens are being reduced to living in a Welfare State, or in the ever-growing prisons. This is as the elites would have it. A populace kept at the edge of existence is easy to dominate and control. The power elites don't want people properly educated. They can get people with the skills needed to implement their designs. Just import them. Why raise up a nation of men and women able to think for themselves? Too hard to control.

As an example, currently, there is a concerted attack on freedom of expression in the form of 'Hate laws'. Rep. Keith Ellison, in concert with CAIR and the ACLU, will in the coming months and years, do his best to make it a crime to confront the radical Islamists as they begin to insinuate themselves in a position to realize their dream of an Islamic Caliphate in the world. By exploiting our legislative and justice system and using the Leftist tool of 'Multiculturalism', they will try to tie the hands of students, parents and right-minded Americans, making it impossible to stop them by legal means. By whatever means, they must be stopped. Frankly, as important as it is to fight the Islamists, I consider the threat of an Islamic Caliphate to be of secondary importance to that of stopping the take-over of our government by the governing elite. Government has taken on a new persona in the past 30 years, which is becoming a mouthpiece for the 'New World Order' which President George Bush, and his father before him have laid out, and which Orwell and Huxley and CS Lewis The Abolition of Man warned us about way back when.

Illegal immigrants have been allowed to swarm our land because the plan is to eliminate the border anyway.

Time to turn off the TV, folks. There's work to be done.
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